Thousands leave Godaddy over elephant killing video

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A gal who worked for me a few years back had a term that is very fitting for the people throwing hissy-fits over a hunting video - Fifi - it stands for "f***ing idiot" and they are so stupid you have to say it twice. Get over it, people - it is just hunting. I suppose every one of these morons is also a vegetarian...after all, if hunting is animal cruelty, then they could certainly never eat a cow or a chicken that was murdered. Personally, I will keep my membership to PETA - People Eating the Tasty Animals - and happily keep all my hosting at GoDaddy.

Hey, Bob - you're a fat middle-aged bunghole who thinks those Girls Gone Wild types in every video really DIG you! You destroy beautiful wild creatures and congratulate yourself on camera for being the GREAT WHITE BWHANA feeding the poor black African villagers? Plain to see that you're just an impotent old boozer. BTW, my personal and business accounts flew your GD coop today. Happy PR campaign, LOSER!

I just completed deleting my domains from GoDaddy...good riddance to bad rubbish!

@Bobby Joe

I don't have a dog or a cat or any animals. Nice try though.

Thanks for the info about animals vs humans! Next time your dog is in my yard I'll just shoot it. It's digging up my garden and after all it's only an animal.

Better to have a bleeding heart than a lump of coal.

Hey, folks, calm down! Remember that the original article was posted on April 1st--you know--April Fools' Day? Looks to me like the Inq caught a lot of people not remembering that.

Now, if there were a *verifiable* video, and it just happened to fall on 01 April, then I might understand all this anger, but this looks like a classic April 1st prank article to me until I'm shown otherwise.

It cracks me up how you Lefties get all indignant without having any actual KNOWLEDGE or FACTS, only opinions and feelings.

There are presently too many elephants in many parts of Africa. The terrain cannot support them. And they've become a life-threatening menace in spots. Thinning the herd is a good thing for all the elephants except this one.

And, yeah, leopard hunting is done at night. THEY'RE NOCTURNAL. And there's a bloody good reason they're included in the Big Five dangerous game list - the hunter doesn't always win. When the leopard wins, no shot is fired, and the hunter's partially consumed carcase (or, often, merely boots) is found the next day, typically stashed up a tree.

Lust killers, who even pride them selves by after wards in their gloat pictures need to feel rejected by the public.

Bob is just a pathetic rich little man who feels mighty when killing big animals for fun and also giving Americans a bad rep overseas.

So the guy went on a safari and shot an elephant. Good for him. Sounds kinda exciting actually. I just can't make myself get worked up over this. People, please quit comparing animals to humans.

i couldnt care less, i doubt im the only one

I moved all my corporate and personal accounts from Godaddy this week. there is also video of the scumbag shooting a leapord at night. Guess he has been a hero more than once. Best part is he is not pulling down all the vids. Try searching for the leapord video... hard to find.

I don't have any friends named "adrian" so if somoebody kills a few, should I not care. I won't today.

Unfortunately 20,000 customers, even 30,000 customers leaving wont impact his bottom dollar enough to prevent these safari hunts if thats what he likes to do

But it is clear bob parsons is "the Problem" I would be happy if the elephant killed him. One less piece of trash on this planet.

Parsons may lose some customers, and I'm glad that he did over his actions. By the very least it shows that ethics still play a role in business.

However, he's afforded himself an excellent PR resources. His original killing video that went viral was virtually destroyed/taken down just about everywhere. Something one simply cannot imagine in this day, but it happened. Not only "personal" uploads, but those of the newscasts that still contained compromising scenes of him shooting an elephant and posing with a rifle over the carcass. The news are no longer reporting, and propaganda edited version of the replacement video is circulated widely. He's effectively and never apologizing manipulated public opinion in the open with little or no challenge from the media or general public.

Really? Have a lot of elephants as pals, do you? I can't be buggered to give a good god damn about an elephant. go tidy up the human condition. feed some kids in that elephants' nation and then come back and complain about some rich dickhead. till then, you're a bunch of bleeding heart twits.

this is the best news I've heard all week! Lets leave this bastard in the dust! What an asshole!

this is the best news I've heard all week! Lets leave this bastard in the dust! What an asshole!

The CEO spends his massive Godaddy wage on travelling to Zimbabwe to kill elephants.

So basically, his acts of animal cruelty are being funded by Godaddy customers. If you're a Godaddy customer, this is where your money is going.

The answer is to stop giving your money to Godaddy. Stop funding acts of cruelty like this. Stop the Godaddy CEO from slaughtering endangered wildlife by leaving the company as quickly as possible.